John Buhrman is now serving on the Duke University Estate Planning Council.
The council is in its 42nd year of existence and typically sponsors a two-day seminar at the Duke University Law School in October of each year.
Membership on the council is comprised of practitioners in the estate planning field, including attorneys, accountants, financial advisers and trust officers.
Membership varies, but includes some 35 to 40 persons primarily from the Southeastern U.S.
An accredited estate planner, Buhrman was born and raised in Chattanooga.
He attended Baylor High School and graduated from Villanova University in 1996. He received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham in 2000.
Before joining his father at Buhrman Law Firm in Chattanooga, he worked for two years as a trust administrator for UBS Trust Company (formerly Bradford Trust Company) in Nashville.
Buhrman is admitted to the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Georgia trial and superior courts, the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Tax Court.
His professional affiliations include the Tennessee, Georgia and Chattanooga bar associations, the Chattanooga Estate Planning Council, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Society of Financial Service Professionals.
Buhrman provides services to Legal Aid of East Tennessee and is an active pro bono attorney in Chattanooga.
He is also an assistant scoutmaster and is on the board of the Children’s Advocacy Center.
Buhrman is a 2006 graduate of Leadership Chattanooga.
He is married to Julie Whittington Buhrman, whom he met in law school. They have two daughters – Cameron and Sadie.
His outside activities include teaching himself to play the banjo.
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